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40 agenda items for America from Republican leaders

With Election Day 40 days away, the Republican leadership is about to release
its latest political marketing effort: a new “Contract With America.” But their
actions have already revealed what they really want for America.

Listed below are 40 agenda items we might find in the new Contract With America
if Republican leaders were being honest about what they really wanted. Take a
look at the list and use the Comments section below to add any I’ve missed.

1.More power: not the kind for our cars and homes, the kind for
Republicans

2. A worse recession: so we can
continue to blame the Democrats for not fixing our mess fast enough

3. A huge deficit: We believe
deficits don’t matter unless we can use them politically

5. A crippled federal judiciary:
We can block any nomination regardless of its impact on law and order

6. High unemployment: Government
shouldn’t be in the business of creating jobs, and if people are working we
can’t hire them to attend our fake “energy citizens” rallies

7. No deficit reduction commission:
When we were in power, we reduced the deficit from +$270 billion to -$1
trillion; we don’t need a commission for that

8. Repeal of the Affordable Care Act: Keeping from 33 million people from what they didn’t have before won’t
hurt them

9. Repeal of Wall Street reform:
Why would we need to reform Wall Street? Haven’t America’s bankers and
financiers been through enough already?

10. Tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans: They are struggling through this recession with
only one summer home. Free up their cash!

11. Tax increases for 98 percent of Americans: We’ll hold hostage the middle-class tax cuts as
long as we have to because someone has to pay for stuff — and the wealthy are
busy buying vacation homes (see No. 10)

12. Repeal of the American Recovery Act: Why should 1.3 million people who had their jobs saved or created get
this kind of special treatment?

13. More American Recovery Act “shovel-ready” projects: Government shouldn’t be in the business of creating
or saving jobs — except ours by giving us pork spending projects to tout in our
districts

14. Putting lobbyists back in charge in Washington: Who has your interests in mind more than the
special interests?

15. More fear: Nothing motivates
like it, nothing divides like it, nothing unites our party like it

16. A new catchy slogan: “We
don’t just focus on the negative, we ARE negative.”

17. More Sarah Palin: The mantra
of our party: “I quit”

18. Privatizing Social Security:
We should trust Wall Street with ALL of our money

19. Bailout bashing: Keep
complaining about the bailouts we enacted; America won’t figure out we’re lying
before the midterms

20. Block bailout prevention: Industries
like banking shouldn’t set up an emergency fund — we’ll let the taxpayers cover
it again if disaster strikes again.